Summary statement

To date, YPP has surveyed over 97,910 ha of peatland on 258 unique sites. With an estimated total of 191,591 ha of peat units to investigate in our project area, YPP has surveyed 51% of the area so far. Based on previous surveys, YPP estimates that by the time we survey all 191,591 ha, we expect 127,566ha to be actual peaty soils with 92,639 ha classed as deep peat (≥40cm). We estimate that, all peaty soils within our project area have locked away a huge 94,504,197 tonnes of carbon which gives an average of 1,005 tonnes of carbon per hectare - one of the densest terrestrial carbon stores of any habitat!

Erosion feature restoration